Novi Cidade de Kilamba (or Kilamba New City), near Luanda, Angola

The city was designed to house up to 500,000 people when complete, and built by the state-owned China International Trustand Investment Corporation few years ago. It has 750 colorful eight-story apartment blocks, a dozen schools, shopping malls with cinema, a five-star hotel and more than 100 retail units. Only 220 apartments had been sold from the first 2800 until July 2012, but now the city grows slowly.

Kolmanskop or Kolmanskuppe, Namibia

Kolmanskop was founded in 1908, in the middle of the Namibian diamond fever, but the city with a casino, a hospital and a school was slowly deserted right after the First World War, when the diamond sales dropped.

Tawergha, Lybia

Pomona, Namibia

Here was the richest diamond mine of the 1910s: according to some stories more than 1 million carats was exploited from the desert here. Now it is in a diamond mining zone (with restricted access) called Sperrgebiet.

It was founded by Sweden in 1910, but sold to the USSR in 1927. Closed in 1998 and it's intact since then. And here's the northliest Lenin statue of the world (the southernmost is on the Southern Pole Of Inaccessibility, since 1958):

Oradour-sur-Glane, France

The village was destroyed in 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants, included 205 children and 247 women, were massacred by the Waffen-SS on June 10, 1944. Only a 47-year-old woman named Marguerite Rouffanche survived.

On the orders of Charles de Gaulle, the place was converted to a museum and it stands there as a memento of WWII. Adolf Diekmann, a commander, blamed the slaughter on retaliation for local partisan activity.

Kayaköy, southwestern Turkey

This village was built on the site of the ancient city of Carmylessus in the mid-18th century. It has an almost only Greek Christian population since 1923, when the village became abandoned after a population change between Greece and Turkey. Since then it's a museum with intact Greek-style houses and two Greek Christian churches.

Copehill Down, Wiltshire, England

Döllersheim, Austria

This 900-year old village and several neighboring ones was evacuated shortly after the Anschluss in 1938 to make place for a Wehrmacht military training area. It was the order of Adolf Hitler, even though his own paternal grandmother Maria was buried here. Now it's operated by the Austrian Armed Forces.

Centralia, Pennsylvania

Two coal mines opened in 1856 and the city started to grow real fast: it reached its maximum population of 2,761 in 1890, had five hotels, seven churches, two theaters, 14 general and grocery stores and 27 saloons.

Plymouth, island of Montserrat, Lesser Antilles, West Indies

Bodie, California

The town was founded in 1859 by a group of gold prospectors near a mine. In 1876 the Standard Company discovered here a quite big gold-bearing ore and Bodie was instantly converted from a small mining camp to one of California's biggest towns with more than 2,000 buildings. Unfortunately the population of the city dropped quickly after the late 1880s. In 1900 it has 965 inhabitants, and only 90 in 1940.

Fordlândia, Brazil

The South American prefabricated industrial town of Fordlândia was established by Henry Ford himself in 1928, to supply rubber for the automobile factory instead of buying British rubber. It was a real failure, because the closely packed rubber trees can't survive in the hilly and infertile land. The inhabitants were forced to wear ID badges and eat American foods. In 1930 they've revolted, but the Brazilian Army came to stop the rebellion.

Chaitén, Chile

Grytviken, South Georgia

The settlement was established in 1904 by a Norwegian sea captain as a whaling station for his fishing company. It was closed in December 1966, but the church is still used occasionally for marriages. The people had their own cinema (the photo below was taken in 1993), but it collapsed few years ago: